Hawaii’s Mountains – Here’s a link to the live web cam on the summit of near 13,800 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. This web cam is available during the daylight hours here in the islands…and when there’s a big moon shining down during the night at times. Plus, during the nights you will be able to see stars, and the sunrise and sunset too… depending upon weather conditions.

Aloha Paragraphs

Satellite imagery shows former tropical cyclone Marie well northeast
of Hawaii…with the faint remainder of former tropical cyclone Lowell
to the north of Hawaii – neither threaten Hawaii

Light winds with afternoon upcountry clouds and showers here and there,
along with a few windward biased showers through this weekend…into the
first half of the new week ahead – sultry

~~~ Hawaii Weather Narrative~~~

Light winds through this Labor Day holiday weekend into the new week…with daytime sea breezes along the leeward beaches. Here’s the latestweather map, showing the Hawaiian Islands, and the rest of the North Pacific Ocean, along with a real-time wind profile of the central Pacific. We find a moderately strong high pressure system to our north. At the same time, there’s former tropical cyclones to the north and northeast of Hawaii…moving westward. These low pressure systems will help to weaken our trade wind flow considerably. We’ll see daytime sea breezes into the first couple of days of the new week ahead, bringing muggy conditions to the state. The more customary trade winds will rebound again around the middle of the week…although may remain somewhat lighter than normal for this time of year.Satellite imageryshows clear to partly cloudy skies…with a clouds over and around the islands in places. Looking at this larger looping satellite image, it shows clear to partly cloudy conditions over most of the state. Meanwhile, there’s areas of diminishing thunderstorms far offshore to the southwest, south and southeast. We can see the clouds associated with former tropical cyclones far north and northeast as well. There’s low clouds being carried our way, which will drop a few showers locally…mostly along our windward sides at night. The lighter winds however will also cause afternoon clouds and some showers over our leeward upcountry areas at times locally too. Here’s thelooping radar, showing a few showers moving across our island chain, which will continue in an off and on manner…a few of which will be moderately heavy at times.

The computer models are keeping the threat of tropical cyclones well away from Hawaii…through the next week. As we move through the next several days, the remnant circulations of former tropical cyclones Lowell and Marie…will move across the area well north and northeast of Hawaii. These former tropical cyclones will interrupt our trade wind flow, with clear mornings giving way to afternoon clouds and showers over the upcountry slopes, and interior sections this weekend and beyond. These lighter winds will cause rather muggy conditions to prevail during the days, especially near sea level locations. I’ll be back with more updates on all of the above and below, I hope you have a great Saturday night wherever you happen to be spending it! Aloha for now…Glenn.

~~~ Here’s some incredibly huge waves breaking at a surf spot called Teahupoo…in Tahiti! Full Screen is best – turn the volume up a little too

1.) Disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity continues in
association with a tropical wave over the northwestern Caribbean
Sea. Land interaction will limit significant development while the
disturbance moves across the Yucatan peninsula today and tonight.
However, environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for
development once the system moves into the southwestern Gulf of
Mexico on Monday.

Interesting:Water scarcity is not a problem just for the developing world – In California, legislators are currently proposing a $7.5 billion emergency water plan to their voters; and U.S. federal officials last year warned residents of Arizona and Nevada that they could face cuts in Colorado River water deliveries in 2016.

Irrigation techniques, industrial and residential habits combined with climate change lie at the root of the problem. But despite what appears to be an insurmountable problem, according to researchers from McGill and Utrecht University it is possible to turn the situation around and significantly reduce water scarcity in just over 35 years.

In a new paper published in Nature Geoscience, the researchers outline strategies in six key areas that they believe can be combined in different ways in different parts of the world in order to effectively reduce water stress. (Water stress occurs in an area where more than 40 percent of the available water from rivers is unavailable because it is already being used — a situation that currently affects about a third of the global population, and may affect as many as half the people in the world by the end of the century if the current pattern of water use continues).

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into “hard path” measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and “soft path” measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community-scale efforts and decision-making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection. The researchers believe that while there are some economic, cultural and social factors that may make certain of the “soft path” measures such as population control difficult, the “soft path” measures offer the more realistic path forward in terms of reducing water stress.

“There is no single silver bullet to deal with the problem around the world,” says Prof. Tom Gleeson, of McGill’s Department of Civil Engineering and one of the authors of the paper. “But, by looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.”